In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
MANCHET
Noun
manchet (countable and uncountable, plural manchets)
(Scotland, obsolete) A type of high-quality bread made from flour.
Source: Wiktionary
Man"chet, n.
Definition: Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [Archaic] Bacon. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FISSILE
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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